Last week I finished building my new system, and today for the first time I attempted to overclock. I need some help though. Since I am new to this please correct any mistakes I've made. The only resources I had for doing the things I did were from online websites.
Let's start off with my system:
-Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 Mobo
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+
-1Gb Dual PC3200 RAM
-Zalman Copper (kick-a$$) CPU cooling fan
-Prime95 and CPU-z Software
So here is what I did:
-dropped my HT Frequency to 3x
-changed the DRAM speed to 166
I started off with increasing my clock speed in 10Mhz increments. When I hit 30 I did not pass Prime95's test so I increased my CPU power from 1.4 to 1.5. When I moved up to 40 I did not pass so I bumped up the voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 and failed after 11 minutes of the test. Throughout all the testing the CPU temp never got over 100F.
The AMD Venice core should allow me much more play than just going from 2.0 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz without failing the test. From what I have read I should atleast be able to get up around 2.6Ghz.
Please help this newbie out!!!!
Let's start off with my system:
-Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 Mobo
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+
-1Gb Dual PC3200 RAM
-Zalman Copper (kick-a$$) CPU cooling fan
-Prime95 and CPU-z Software
So here is what I did:
-dropped my HT Frequency to 3x
-changed the DRAM speed to 166
I started off with increasing my clock speed in 10Mhz increments. When I hit 30 I did not pass Prime95's test so I increased my CPU power from 1.4 to 1.5. When I moved up to 40 I did not pass so I bumped up the voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 and failed after 11 minutes of the test. Throughout all the testing the CPU temp never got over 100F.
The AMD Venice core should allow me much more play than just going from 2.0 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz without failing the test. From what I have read I should atleast be able to get up around 2.6Ghz.
Please help this newbie out!!!!